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"EPT increases the proliferation of breast cells, breast pain, and density of mammograms. ET only does this to a lesser degree. In fact, it is possible that EPT may interfere with the radiological interpretation of mammograms. (Other research has shown that women who take EPT and acquire breast cancer get diagnosed earlier on mammograms and have less invasive disease, smaller tumors, and better outcomes.) Osteoporosis. Both ET and EPT reduce the risk of osteoporotic fractures. For women who have osteoporosis or are at high risk for fractures, ET/EPT is a treatment option." - Tori Hudson, N.D., Women's Encyclopedia of Natural Medicine: Alternative Therapies and Integrative Medicine for Total Health and Wellness (Get the book.)

"For the mammograms from women who turned out to have cancer, the radiologists got the correct diagnosis between 74 and 96 percent of the time. For the mammograms from women who did not have cancer, cancer was highly suspected between 11 and 65 percent of the time. The false-negative rate is moderate, and moderately variable. The false-positive rate is considerable and also quite variable." - Nortin M. Hadler MD, Worried Sick: A Prescription for Health in an Overtreated America (Get the book.)

"The study of the inter-observer reliability of mammography was by Elmore and colleagues, "Variability in Radiologists' Interpretations of Mammograms" (1994), as was the study of false-positive rates (Elmore and colleagues, "Ten-Year Risk of False Positive Screening mammograms and Clinical Breast Examinations," 1998). The study probing the psychological price paid by these screened women was earlier (Lerman and colleagues, "Psychological and Behavioral Implications of Abnormal mammograms," 1991)." - Nortin M. Hadler, The Last Well Person: How to Stay Well Despite the Health-Care System (Get the book.)

"In fact, it is possible that EPT may interfere with the radiological interpretation of mammograms. (Other research has shown that women who take EPT and acquire breast cancer get diagnosed earlier on mammograms and have less invasive disease, smaller tumors, and better outcomes.) Osteoporosis. Both ET and EPT reduce the risk of osteoporotic fractures. For women who have osteoporosis or are at high risk for fractures, ET/EPT is a treatment option. One should weigh the benefits and the risks of this and other treatment options. Depression." - Tori Hudson, N.D., Women's Encyclopedia of Natural Medicine: Alternative Therapies and Integrative Medicine for Total Health and Wellness (Get the book.)

"For the mammograms from women who did not have cancer, cancer was highly suspected between 11 and 65 percent of the time. The false-negative rate is moderate, and moderately variable. The false-positive rate is considerable and also quite variable. While there has been improvement in the training of mammographers and standardization of their machines and techniques over the past decade, it is doubtful if this has led to improved interobserver reliability." - Nortin M. Hadler MD, Worried Sick: A Prescription for Health in an Overtreated America (Get the book.)

"In July 1995, The Lancet wrote about mammograms, saying "The benefit is marginal, the harm caused is substantial, and the costs incurred are enormous ..." As published in October 2007 by The Cochrane Library and PubMed (October 2007), self-breast exams don't benefit mortality rates from breast cancer either. Two large population-based studies (388,535 women) from Russia and Shanghai that compared breast self-examination found that death rates from breast cancer were the same among women who rigorously self-examined as those who did not." - Andreas Moritz, Cancer Is Not A Disease - It's A Survival Mechanism (Get the book.) "Researchers at the Nordic Cochrane Centre in Denmark found that for every 2,000 women who received mammograms over a 10-year period, only one would have her life prolonged, but 10 would endure unnecessary and potentially harmful treatments. The study examined the benefits and negative effects of seven breast cancer screening programs on 500,000 women in the United States, Canada, Scotland and Sweden. • Dr. Samuel Epstein of the Cancer Prevention Coalition, "Screening mammography poses significant and cumulative risks of breast cancer for pre-menopausal women." ..." - Andreas Moritz, Cancer Is Not A Disease - It's A Survival Mechanism (Get the book.) "Simone, a former clinical associate in immunology and pharmacology at the National Cancer Institute, said, "Mammograms increase the risk for developing breast cancer and raise the risk of spreading or metastasizing an existing growth." • After reviewing 117 studies conducted between 1966 and 2005, an expert panel from the American College of Physicians (ACP), found the data on mammography screening for women in their 40s are so unclear that the effectiveness of reducing breast cancer death could be either 15% or " ... nearly zero." - Andreas Moritz, Cancer Is Not A Disease - It's A Survival Mechanism (Get the book.) "There are no harmless MRIs or mammograms. Other studies reveal that children exposed to x-rays are more likely to develop breast cancer as adults. Microwave ovens that heat and radiate your food are just as damaging and can cause cancer of the blood, as well as tumors in the brain and other parts of the body. (See section below.) Facts about mammography: • Each x-ray you accumulate increases your risk of abnormal cell growth. One standard mammography test results in approximately 1 rad (radiation absorbed dose) exposure, about 1,000 times greater than that from a chest x-ray." - Andreas Moritz, Cancer Is Not A Disease - It's A Survival Mechanism (Get the book.)

"You should have been having mammograms every year after the age of forty, as recommended by the American Cancer Institute.) • All women should have a Pap smear every year to monitor HPV (human papilloma virus), which is associated with cervical cancer. During menopause, ask your doctor to take an HPV culture at the time of your Pap smear. If it is negative for high-risk strains of the virus, and you have never had a problem with HPV or abnormal smears, Pap smears can be reduced to every two to three years—as long as you have a stable sex life (that is, a monogamous sex partner whom you trust." - Phuli Cohan, The Natural Hormone Makeover: 10 Steps to Rejuvenate Your Health and Rediscover Your Inner Glow (Get the book.) "Unfortunately, natural progesterone drew criticisms of possibly predisposing to breast cancer (women using it had mammograms that were more dense). What these researchers failed to appreciate is that the dose used was too low (100 mg/day) to oppose the very strong synthetic horse estrogen used with it. You may also come across other reports that claim there is no benefit to using transdermal bioidentical progesterone, but the doses used in these studies were also much too low (20 to 45 mg/day)." - Phuli Cohan, The Natural Hormone Makeover: 10 Steps to Rejuvenate Your Health and Rediscover Your Inner Glow (Get the book.) "Some tests, such as mammograms and metabolite measuring, should be done each year to ensure a safe makeover experience. As you can see, understanding what hormones do and what it feels like when hormones are not in balance is important to feel your best and to slow down the natural aging process. I hope that this will be the beginning of a better understanding of just who you are and why you feel the way you do. Hormone Safety and Metabolism ormones have been around since women first walked this ; Earth. They have not changed, but how we view them has varied widely." - Phuli Cohan, The Natural Hormone Makeover: 10 Steps to Rejuvenate Your Health and Rediscover Your Inner Glow (Get the book.) "In particular, breast MRIs for suspicious or especially dense mammograms and advancements in needle biopsies have allowed precancerous lesions (hyperplasia and cancer in situ) and early cancers to be detected, and treatments have become more effective. The fact remains that most women who develop breast cancer will die from heart disease and suffer from menopausal symptoms like any other woman. So what should you do if you are a woman who has beaten breast cancer? To begin with, you need to learn why you developed cancer and what you can do to prevent its recurrence in the future." - Phuli Cohan, The Natural Hormone Makeover: 10 Steps to Rejuvenate Your Health and Rediscover Your Inner Glow (Get the book.)

"Too many raise the risk of endothelial or DNA damage, chronic inflammation, and cancer, whether it's mammograms, dental X-rays, CT scans, or cardiology angiograms. Multiple angiograms on a patient may promote disease progression. No research shows this, but we tread very conservatively on this issue. Radiation abounds in our present-day environment. Radiation damage accumulates and doesn't disappear from your body. If you have been exposed to excessive radiation in your neck and heart area, be very prudent about reducing your overall CVD risk factors." - Stephen Sinatra, M.D. and James C., M.D. Roberts, Reverse Heart Disease Now: Stop Deadly Cardiovascular Plaque Before It's Too Late (Get the book.)

"Medical X-rays used at the dentist to see teeth root health, X-rays used by physicians to investigate bone health and mammograms of the breast subject the body to radiation. Uranium miners and those living in areas close to nuclear weapons tests are exposed to higher levels of radiation. Ironically, some cancer treatments include radiation therapy to help kill cancer cells. Yet the radiation itself increases the risk of cancer. Historically, radiation was used to monitor patients with tuberculosis." - Allison Tannis, Probiotic Rescue: How You can use Probiotics to Fight Cholesterol, Cancer, Superbugs, Digestive Complaints and More (Get the book.)

"Clark had been going to her trusted female gynecologist for annual pelvic and breast exams, PAP smears, and mammograms, and to monitor her hormone replacement therapy (HRT). When we first met, Mrs. Clark let me know that she felt more comfortable discussing personal issues with her gynecologist, so at her annual exams I would make only general inquiries and therefore did not get to know her as well as most of my other patients. I knew that her family was doing well, her lifestyle was unusually healthy, and she had no significant medical problems. When Mrs." - John Abramson, Overdosed America: The Broken Promise of American Medicine (P.S.) (Get the book.)

"Thus, women must consider the adverse consequences of false-positive mammograms."47 Still another editorial (though not by the editor) in the same issue of Annals took a harsher view of mammography. "The controversy looks almost Swiftian when we consider that even under the most optimistic assumptions, mammography still cannot prevent the vast majority of breast cancer deaths." - Gerald E. Markle and Frances B. McCrea, What If Medicine Disappeared? (Get the book.) "Neither group received clinical breast exams or mammograms, which are not widely available in China. A ten-year follow-up on these women published 2002 in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute found no difference in death rates between the two groups. These results were consistent with a yet unfinished study in Russia. The authors reached three conclusions: 1. Intensive instruction in self-examination did not reduce mortality from breast cancer. 2. Programs to encourage self-examination in the absence of mammography are unlikely to reduce breast cancer. 3." - Gerald E. Markle and Frances B. McCrea, What If Medicine Disappeared? (Get the book.) "A 2002 editorial in the Annals of Internal Medicine maintained that the efficacy of mammograms for younger women is an open question. "The debate is worth following closely," concluded the editor of the journal, "because women are deciding about breast cancer screening, and it's our role to keep them informed as best we can." Yet it is worth remembering that "mammography screening may lead to an overdiagnosis of breast cancer—that is, the detection of a tumor that would not have become clinically detectable in the patient's lifetime." - Gerald E. Markle and Frances B. McCrea, What If Medicine Disappeared? (Get the book.)

"Other research has shown that women who take EPT and acquire breast cancer get diagnosed earlier on mammograms and have less invasive disease, smaller tumors, and better outcomes.) Osteoporosis. Both ET and EPT reduce the risk of osteoporotic fractures. For women who have osteoporosis or are at high risk for fractures, ET/EPT is a treatment option. One should weigh the benefits and the risks of this and other treatment options. Depression. Short-term ET may have antidepressant activity in perimenopausal women but not in older postmenopausal women." - Tori Hudson, N.D., Women's Encyclopedia of Natural Medicine: Alternative Therapies and Integrative Medicine for Total Health and Wellness (Get the book.) "Breast cancer can be screened for with mammograms. OVERVIEW OF ALTERNATIVE TREATMENTS The fundamental goals of an alternative approach to menopause are to provide relief from common menopausal symptoms and to prevent and/or treat osteoporosis, heart disease, and other diseases of aging. The goal is to do this with methods that do not increase the risk of life-threatening diseases such as breast cancer, blood clots, and strokes. In order to accomplish these fundamental goals, the menopausal woman and her practitioner must embrace an individualized approach." - Tori Hudson, N.D., Women's Encyclopedia of Natural Medicine: Alternative Therapies and Integrative Medicine for Total Health and Wellness (Get the book.)

"Both of these increases may be due to greater awareness and the use of mammograms. Unlike more common forms of breast cancer, IBC tends to occur in younger women, particularly young African-American women. Inflammatory breast cancer rarely occurs in men, but when it does, it's usually found in older men. ENLARGED BREASTS IN MEN Large breasts in women are often seen as a sign of sexiness. Indeed, big-breasted women are likely to attract lots of attention, admiration, and even jealousy." - Joan Liebmann-Smith, Ph. D., and Jacqueline Nardi Egan, Body Signs: From Warning Signs to False Alarms...How to Be Your Own Diagnostic Detective (Get the book.) "WARNING SIGN Women with asymmetrical breasts should be especially diligent about having mammograms. A recent British study found that even small irregularities in breast symmetry as measured by mammography may become an important indicator of increased risk of breast cancer. Though rare, uneven breasts can also be a sign of a congenital defect called Poland's syndrome, in which the chest muscles on one side of the body are underdeveloped. Although present from birth, and sometimes hereditary, this type of breast asymmetry may go unnoticed until puberty when the breasts start to develop." - Joan Liebmann-Smith, Ph. D., and Jacqueline Nardi Egan, Body Signs: From Warning Signs to False Alarms...How to Be Your Own Diagnostic Detective (Get the book.)

"Opening up a discussion about mammograms, she began with the question, "Would you personally get regular mammograms? Would you recommend mammograms for your mother? And would you recommend mammograms for your patients?" I was the only one who said I wouldn't have them ever. As soon as I had said it, I realized what I had done, and I could see every jaw in the room hit the floor. Big OOPS. Too late to take it back. I had to own what I had said. This time, I wanted to stand my ground and tell the truth. I was asked a direct question, and I felt it deserved a direct answer." - Cynthia A. Foster, M.D., Stop the Medicine! A Medical Doctor's Miraculous Recovery with Natural Healing (Get the book.)

"The medical literature on the effectiveness of mammograms is confusing and contradictory. Official recommendations change often. "Is a woman less likely to die of breast cancer if she starts screening while she is in her forties?"46 This is the question posed by the Canadian National Breast Screening Study. Their answer: Women who received annual mammographies (along with self and clinical breast exams) did not live longer than those who did not. In the face of this confusion, what should physicians advise women to do? Is routine screening necessary? How often? At what age?" - Gerald E. Markle and Frances B. McCrea, What If Medicine Disappeared? (Get the book.)

"Those are questions that should be addressed to every woman before mammograms are ordered ?as long as we are going to indemnify the procedure (see chapter 14). In the supplementary reading for this chapter, additional data sets are discussed and illuminating elements of the scientific debate displayed." - Nortin M. Hadler MD, Worried Sick: A Prescription for Health in an Overtreated America (Get the book.)

"Warm Herbal Poultice Eases Pain G It began as an attempt to reach women who were avoiding mammograms because they were fearful of coming to a clinical setting. Evanston Northwestern Healthcare opened the Breast Health Program at Nordstrom/Old Orchard in the northern suburbs of Chicago in 1995. Initial response was so favorable that doctors decided to expand the program to include screening for osteoporosis. For information on the project, call 888-ENH-6400. For general breast cancer screening information, contact the Susan B. Komen Foundation at 800-462-9273, or at www.breastcancerinfo.com." - Bottom Line Books, Uncommon Cures For Everyday Ailments (Get the book.)

"For the mammograms from women who turned out to have cancer, the radiologists got the correct diagnosis between 74 per cent and 96 per cent of the time. For the mammograms from women who did not have the disease, cancer was highly suspected between 11 per cent and 65 per cent of the time. The false-negative rate is moderate and moderately variable. The false-positive rate is considerable and also quite variable." - Nortin M. Hadler, The Last Well Person: How to Stay Well Despite the Health-Care System (Get the book.)

"The increased use of diagnostics such as CT scans and mammograms and surgical procedures—a million or so heart surgeries are performed every year - is far worse than it was back then. I consider physicians to be more dangerous to patients now than they were 30 years ago." "How about the health care system in the United States? How would you say it ranks? " Dr. Whitaker: "We actually have one of the worst health care systems in the world. If you compare total life expectancy of a person minus their years of illness, we rank 22nd out of 23 industrialized countries." - Kenneth W Thomas, Ron Gilbert, Gerd Schaller, Side Effects: The Hidden Agenda of the Pharmaceutical Drug Cartel (Get the book.)

"The study probing the psychological price paid by these screened women was earlier (Lerman and colleagues, "Psychological and Behavioral Implications of Abnormal mammograms," 1991). A more recent article (Sharp and colleagues, "Reported Pain following Mammography Screening," 2003) documents the discomfort, even pain, associated with mammography. Thurfjell, "Breast Density and the Risk of Breast Cancer" (2002), provides a brief discussion of the influence of breast density on mammographic accuracy." - Nortin M. Hadler, The Last Well Person: How to Stay Well Despite the Health-Care System (Get the book.)

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